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While Democrats claimed some key victories nationally Tuesday, Republicans completed a political shift in Alabama and swept the remaining statewide offices.

Republicans now control all statewide offices, six of the state's seven U.S. House seats and both U.S. Senate seats, and have a supermajority in the Alabama House and Senate. Also, the Republican nominee for president has won Alabama in every election since 1976.

A longtime state political observer said Alabama has been moving in that direction since the 1990s, and he does not foresee that changing. ...